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Inbox: Which prospects will raise their stock?
- Updated: September 23, 2016
Thursday was officially the first day of fall. That’s actually an exciting time for us in the prospect world.
It means the Arizona Fall League is just around the corner. And prospects everywhere are currently participating in their organization’s instructional league camp. I took a look at the Reds and D-backs already, and we’ll have much more coverage on instructs as the fall progresses.
For now, we’ll head to your questions, which were very pitching-heavy this week. I hear that’s what builds championship teams.
@JonathanMayo @MLBPipeline Who ups their stock the most in 2017? Kilome, Allard, Kellar, Fried or Fedde?
— Jay Blue (@Jay_Blue24) September 21, 2016
@JonathanMayo @MLBPipeline Who ups their stock the most in 2017? Kilome, Allard, Kellar, Fried or Fedde?
I’ll start with some quick editing and point out that Jay Blue means Mitch Keller, the fine Pirates right-handed prospect. He’d probably be the answer to who upped his stock the most this past season. But the question wants to fast-forward to 2017. Fair enough.
Several on this list have come back from injuries, with Erick Fedde of the Nationals and Max Fried of the Braves returned from Tommy John surgery, while fellow Brave Kolby Allard had a back issue that slowed him for a while (more on those two in the next question). Fedde and Allard are on the Top 100 currently, and I could see them making a strong move up in 2017. I could also see Fried jumping on to the list. But I’m actually going to go with the one guy I haven’t mentioned yet: Phillies righty Franklyn Kilome.
Currently No. 9 on the Phillies’ Top 30 (perhaps under-ranked at this point), Kilome has a lot to like. He’s just 21 years old, he’s 6-foot-6 and is armed with a plus fastball, a breaking ball that should be at least above average and a more-than-usable changeup. Kilome made tremendous adjustments in the second half of his first year of full-season ball, posting a 2.77 ERA in the second half of the South Atlantic League campaign. He finished ninth in strikeouts for the year, with his K rate jumping up and his walk rate plummeting in the second half. I could see Kilome starting the year with Clearwater and finishing it with Double-A Reading while establishing himself as one of the best starting pitching prospects in the game.
@JonathanMayo @MLBPipeline how impressed are you with the performance of the Rome braves pitching staff in playoffs
— Michael Gillis (@MichaelGillis1) September 21, 2016 …
